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Title
How to lead academic departments successfully
Type
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Monograph
Language
English
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Illustrations
Classification
LCC: LB2806 .H67 2021 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 378.1/01 full (Source: 23)
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Summary
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.
Table Of Contents
PART I Challenges of being an academic leader
On the particular challenges of managing professionals
Relevant leadership: the dynamic equilibrium of managing and leading academic departments
The role of academic leaders of a business school: an internal tensions perspective
PART II Transformational and performance leadership
The head of department as the key transformational leader
Leading with purpose: developing the first business school for public good
Leading academic departments
Individual performance management: enabler or threat to academic performance?
Deploying systems thinking to create a 'triple-crown' business school
PART III Inclusivity, team spirit and career development
'Don't think you can be everyone's friend': dealing with conflict in an academic department
Smells like team spirit: a user's guide for department heads
'Now you see it': gender, inclusion and diversity
Leading faculty as teachers
Inclusive onboarding in academic departments
PART IV Building, leading and funding research groups
Building research groups
Dilemmas in university management: the case of Copenhagen Business School
Pathways to external funding at departments: how to strengthen a change of culture by empowerment, supportive organizing and leadership?
PART V Collaboration with other disciplines and practitioners
Collaborating with practitioners
Leading academics in a public-private partnership: balancing value and performance-based leadership in times of (climate) change
Undertaking cross-disciplinary research
PART VI Leadership in different contexts
Framing business schools as a socio-technical system: issues around complexity and emergence
Business school leadership in an era of change and uncertainty: complex structures, executive education and accreditation
Academic leadership: the Danish case
PART VII Personal leadership reflections
Responsibilities of the department chair: lessons from the frontline
How to lead an academic marketing department: some personal observations and reflections
From head to dean: academic leadership.
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How to lead academic departments successfully